Advanced Courses for KU International Students

Connect, collaborate, and grow! Join this fun service learning course to learn important community-focused skills. If you want to build meaningful relationships with professors, alumni, classmates, and community members, this class is your key to success. This course is problem- and project-based, which means that you will work to address a community-identified need through a collaborative project you help design. Two important things about this class are that learning happens in phases through individual and collaborative exploration. Through each phase, you will experience discomfort, you will make mistakes, and you will manage ambiguity. Fun!

3 credits

Are you feeling nervous about your English grammar? Are you worried that your writing is unclear? Since grammar is fundamental to clear and fluent academic writing, you need good control of grammar to be successful in academic writing tasks. This class focuses on advanced grammar structures in writing. In the class, you will complete in-class writing assignments each week and get individualized feedback on grammar errors in your writing. You will learn to identify your grammar weaknesses and fix them!

1.5 credits

When non-native speakers of English lack confidence in their pronunciation, it can have far-reaching consequences academically, culturally, and socially. This class is designed to improve pronunciation by giving students knowledge of the individual sounds, stress, intonation, rhythm, and other fundamentals of English pronunciation. In addition to classroom practice, the students will receive individualized evaluations from the teacher. By the end of the course, the student will be easier to understand and will gain confidence in all situations where English is spoken.

1.5 credits